WI/AHC: Prevent the Democratic-Republican Party from splitting

Basically as the tin says, what if/is there a way to prevent the Democratic-Republican Party from splitting into the Democratic and National Republican (eventually Whig, and then, Republican) parties or was it doomed to split
 
Basically as the tin says, what if/is there a way to prevent the Democratic-Republican Party from splitting into the Democratic and National Republican (eventually Whig, and then, Republican) parties or was it doomed to split
Well, the obvious solution is to ensure that the Federalists never collapse, probably by avoiding the war of 1812.
 
The Era of Good Feelings can't last forever. Eventually a second party (and possibly third) are going to emerge out of somewhere. However, it dosen't have to come from a DR slit nessicerily: you just need some other parties getting a solid footing on a state/legislative level to produce leaders around which rising politicans and some defectors can rally. Maybe the Antimasons actually get a coherent broad platform cobbled together?
 
Off the top of my head I have to say that by
1824/25 IOTL the D/R had become so big-so
unwieldy- that it was just bound to split up
into @ least two factions. Maybe a good question to ponder then is: “Why did it
split up into two- but only TWO- parts?”
 
The Jeffersonian Republicans were doomed to split. A one party system, which US politics generally became by 1820, can't last forever in a democratic society. Even before the 1824 election, Republicans disagreed over tariffs, expansion, slavery, and other hot button issues of the day. You had ex-Federalists like Adams, moderates like Clay who took ideas from both Hamilton and Jefferson, the "Tertium Quid" old guard, and then hardline right-wingers like Jackson and Calhoun. A party with that many disagreeing factions can't work for very long and it's actually pretty surprising that the Republicans lasted until 1828.
 
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